Community organisations

Want your church, school or community group to go solar? With over 35 years working on sustainability projects with community organisations, Going Solar can help. We grew out of a community group ourselves, so community organisations feel like home to us.

Going Solar has a long-term, proven commitment to sustainability, and award-winning experience in solar electricity and solar hot water system design. Like you, we take the long view: it's not about making a quick buck, it's about implementing quality systems that will make your premises more sustainable and energy efficient for decades to come.

If you have a sustainability target to meet, we'll help you meet it, while also saving on energy bills.

Common problems and solutions for Community organisations

Replacing your broken hot water system

Often clients come to us wanting to replace their old or broken hot water systems. Going Solar will act quickly to ensure you have the best Solar Hot Water solution to suit your household's needs and provide energy savings straight away.

Microinverters improve performance under partial shading

If your roof is partially shaded, small, or on a difficult orientation, this package is for you. It features a set of Enphase Microinverters, to be mounted on the back of each solar panel individually. Microinverters improve the energy harvest of small systems, and last longer than conventional string inverter. But most importantly, by converting the electricity from DC to AC at the module level, microinverters prevent one shaded panel from taking out the whole array, allowing systems exposed to shading to work throughout the day.

quoteOur clients say...

“The school had unsuccessfully applied for Solar Schools grants. When the opportunity came to create a canopy structure that functioned as a wind break and sun shade- the idea came to create a canopy that provide both these function and showcase solar panels at ground-level - where better than at a primary school.

Going Solar was approached to quote on a 10Kw system to be integrated into the canopy and hooked up to the schools network. Through a collaborative design process with the MacCormack services engineers and Miwa at Going Solar we were able to design and position the solar canopy structure at front of the school to optimise angle and exposure to the sun. All through the design and construction the team at Going Solar have been professional; the school is very happy with outcome and look forward to using the data for educational purposes.”